LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES: IN THREE VOLUMES.A. Strahan; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1787 |
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... resemblance to nature is aimed at ; wherever there is any reference of parts to a whole , or of means to an end , as there is indeed in almost every writ- ing and discourse , there the understanding must always have a great part to act ...
... resemblance to nature is aimed at ; wherever there is any reference of parts to a whole , or of means to an end , as there is indeed in almost every writ- ing and discourse , there the understanding must always have a great part to act ...
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... resemblance as to form a very natural affociation in the fancy , and the reprefenting them both as fubject , at one moment , to the command of God , pro- duces a noble effect . HOMER is a poet , who , in all ages , and by all critics ...
... resemblance as to form a very natural affociation in the fancy , and the reprefenting them both as fubject , at one moment , to the command of God , pro- duces a noble effect . HOMER is a poet , who , in all ages , and by all critics ...
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... resemblance to nature . It was probably , in this fenfe , that Ariftotle termed Poetry a mimetic art . How far either the Imitation or the Defcrip- tion which Poetry employs , is fuperior to the imitative powers of Painting and Mufic ...
... resemblance to nature . It was probably , in this fenfe , that Ariftotle termed Poetry a mimetic art . How far either the Imitation or the Defcrip- tion which Poetry employs , is fuperior to the imitative powers of Painting and Mufic ...
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... resemblance which the organs of voice are capable of affuming to fuch external qua- lities . By this natural mechanism , they ima- gine all Languages to have been at firft con- structed , and the roots of their capital words formed ...
... resemblance which the organs of voice are capable of affuming to fuch external qua- lities . By this natural mechanism , they ima- gine all Languages to have been at firft con- structed , and the roots of their capital words formed ...
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... resemblance in found to the things fignified . In this ftate we now find Language . Words , as we now employ them , taken in the general , may be confidered as fymbols , not as imitations ; as arbitrary , or inftituted , not natural ...
... resemblance in found to the things fignified . In this ftate we now find Language . Words , as we now employ them , taken in the general , may be confidered as fymbols , not as imitations ; as arbitrary , or inftituted , not natural ...
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